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ft) fr Hail Q&lzxinn.' ASTORIA. OREGON: D. C. IRELAND Editor. ASTORIA Jtixe 22, 1879. Shipping Wheat rs Flour. The views of The Astorian ex pressed very fully when endeavoring to work up the flour-milling interest hers, of shipping our wheat in the shape of flour, is coming about again, from other quarters. A late New York commercial sheet says: The packing of flour in sacks instead of barrels is growing m favor in the east, and ultimately will be generally adopted here beyond question as the freight is less, the packages handled with greater ease, and the sacks can be utilized after being emptied, -while the manufacture of flour in this coun try on a sufficient large scale to export our surplus wheat crop in that form, would be a great and valuable addi tion to the revenues of this country, and incidentally benefit the cotton interest. H. Kains Jackson, the dis tinguished English writer on agricul ture, advocates the substitution, and for these cogent reasens: The transit-charges of 10,000,000 quar ters wheat has to be reckoned on 2,000, 000 tons as ship freights, whilst the pro duce of 10,060,000 quarters of wheat re duced to flour, requires a much less number of ships to bridge the Atlantic, fewer hands to haul, load and unload it, and reduces therefore the cost very ma terially. A few advantages doubtless remain with the old system of moving the wheat and grinding it up where wanted, but those advantages appear to be getting more inconsiderable every year. It is added that the sale of flour instead of wheat cannot fail to change the basis of trade and to con vert the American wheat-seller into the flour-consignor. The charges will also have an important bearing upon collateral interests, especially cotton, cooperage and freighting. Tke Terrors of Perihelion. It may not be criminal in the eyes of the lawjbut certainly it Is only one step from it for public journals to herald with display headlines, and in high colored sentences, the terrible calamities to fol low the coining perihelion of the plan ets. One would think that science it self had decided that the two years im mediately in the future were destined to be filled with famine, war, lires, plagues and general destruction, whereas all this talk is the sheerest nonsense, in which no man of science would for a moment indulge. It was started bya nlftWiirabCfTocyTaTTaiTuSmr a startling paragraph, it has gone the rounds of the press, nowhere meeting with the condemnation it deserves. It is a discouraging sign when journalists (whose high -calling is to teach the peo ple, who look to them for daily mental food) sacrifice the truth to the love of the j wonderful and startling. Singular enough the ''spirit messages" of many public mediums are colored by this wide-spread prophecy. It is, how ever, to be remarked that ecstaties and trance speakers in all ages, are prone to follow the example of Jeremiah, and ftrophesy of war, famine and pestilence. t is the easiest of all methods of gain ing attention, and as no one can success fully dispute that the future may not verify, the prophet gains note, and is re garded with a kind of undefined awe. Such prophesies have been made since the advent of Modern Spiritualism, and we have yet to see their fulfillment I do not refer to such prophecies as are made calmly, relating to the continuous order of events, many of which have been fulfilled to the letter. There is no doubt of the ability of certain intelli gences being able to foresee the future. I more especially allude to what may be called ''blood and thunder" prophecies, which are so constantly putiorth. Now, it may be said that the state ment that wonderful and unusual changes oecured at the time of preceding perihelions, is utterly without found ation, or that any planet has ever been demonstrated to have more decided influence at one time than another over mankind. That the planets have such influence I do not dispute, but that it is so great :is.to cause mighty organic or spirtual changes, is baseless assertion. That a passing planet may influence the earth may be quite possible, for the earth is much less in size than any of the exterior orbs, but their influence on the sun, and thus indirectly on the earth, is quite another consideration, and when we regard the insignificant size of the planets in comparison with the sun, we perceive that the cause is wholly inade quate to the effect Besides the fact that at perihelion it is always possible for the planets to be at their furtherest from the earth, renders the idea of their ureater influence on our orb untenable. The planets are usually balanced in their orbits around the sun, as their pe riodic times of revolution are va rious, and rarely ever reach their peri helion, or in other words, the nearest point to their orbit to the sun at the same time. The reader will better un derstand this subject if he will remem ber that the planets do not revolve around the sun in circles, but in slight ellipses, and the sun is placed out of the centre towards one end of the elliptic orbit This brings the planets atone point of their revolution nearer the sun than at any oilier. Jupiter, the largest of the planets, revolves around the sun in eleven ears and ten months and nine davs; and once in that time approaches 4.894,000 miles nearer than at the other half of its long year, when instead of being 4S2.74."S,000 miles, it is 4y8,Goy,000 miles disti nt. Now the influence of Jupiter, what ever it may be. is more than that of all the rest of the planets combined, for if we take the mass of the earth at 1,000, that of Jupiter is 'iOO.800, and that of all the remaining members of the. solar system, except tlie sun, is only 121,24Jr But when we compare the combined mass of the planets and asteroids with that of the sun, it will be seen that it forms a very insignificant factor, for while the masses of the sun, taking the earth as 1,000, is 315.000,000, that of all the planets and asteroids is only 422.10 This proportion, expressed ni popular terms, would be about that sustained by a pea to a good-sized orange. In case of the earth, it is seen that al though in perihelion it is about three millions of miles nearer the sun than in aphelion, and as this tikes place every year, it certainly should have been ob served to have some effect on organic beings. That none, such has been ob served is almostconclusive proof that no sensible influence is directly exerted. The great size of Jupiter Is urged as a more potent cause, yet this argument is superficial. True his volume is 1233 times that of the earth, but he is formed of lighter material, and this means pro portional diminution of gravitation, or attractive influence. His density js only about one-fourth that of the earth, so that he really exceeds the earth only 301 times. Again, as every bodjr in na ture attracts every other body with a force directly as its mass and inversely as the square of its distance, the power of Jupiter is still further greatly dimin ished. Thus as Jupiter is more than five time farther from the sun than the earth, it follows that its attraction is twenty-five times less, so that if the at traction of the earth for the sun be rep resented by 1, that of Jubiter will be only 12, notwithstanding his enormous size. SATURN. All that has been said of Jupiter holds good in regard to Saturn, only in a greater degree, for Saturn, although 700 times the volume of the earth, is only 1)0 times greater in mass. Its greatest distance from the sun is 920,073, 000 miles, and least 823,301.000. or 49,000, 000 miles less. Its mean distance, there fore, is nearly ten times greater than that of the earth. It is thus evident that although Saturn would, if placed in the earth's orbit, exert ninety times greater influence than that orb, yet at its remote bounds it exerts no more on the sun than does the earth. In this case as in that of Jupiter, the difference in attraction between aphelion and perihelion would not be sufficient to cause any alarming changes either in the earth or the sun. Certainly if we find no change in the earth directlv ref erable to its own perihelion, we should not expect to find changes produced by other planets. After thus disposing of the two titans of the solar system, it is needless to men tion the others, which form altogether an insignificant portion. Why there should beany great chang es on the earth during the period of perihelion of any planet, than aphelion, no one attempts to explain, or why be cause several enter perihelion at nearly the same time, should let loose war and the plague, THESE MILLERITISH PREDICTIONS of the uend of the world," of convulsions and misery, belong to another age than the present; to an age when the laws of nature were illy understood, and a tyrant was supposed to manage the universe for man' s discomfort and his own selfish pleasure. Now, we have faith in law, the result of knowledge, and these prophecies are like those of the weather lnjhe almanac of the quack. ' "TutKermore, why should the influence be for evil insteaa of for good ? "Why not the disturbances caused by this slight approach to the sun. redound to the benefit of man, instead of his des truction ? There is nothing certain in these wild prophecies. They have not the least foundation in science, and whether given by mortals or spirits, are simply wicked in the effects they have on the credulous and igorant. If a pestilence is to come next year from the scowl of Jupiter, no better pre parations can be made than such pre dictions which, if believed, unnerve the system and make the victim ready for the slaughter. In 1456, more than four centuries ago, the Pope issued a bull against Rally's comet, which from the zenith to the horizon swept its direful tail of flame, shaking therefrom, war pestilence and famine, bending the knee of all Europe in agony of fear. Now we have a repitition of the same ignorance of man's relations to nature, and a catering press prostituted to feed ing credulity ! Wherever the. planets may be, there will be countries at war, and others where food will be wanting, and others still smitten with disease; and on the other side nations at peace, nations abounding in prosperity, and rejoicing in more than average health. Hudson Tuttlc. IIKI. At Stony point, W. T., on the 8th day of June, 1S7!. of diphtheria. Ellsworth E., youngest, son of w. B. and Mary L. Clark, aged 5 years, 1 month and 18 days. SEW ADVERTISEaiENTS. IOUXD ADRIFT. A fishing boat, ? net. and outfit complete, was picked up in this bay June 20th. The boat is numbered 0, J. G. Megler & Co. Owner can have the same on proof of property and payment of charges. Iy applying to Thomas Savage, near McGinn's boat shop Astoria. 4ti-tf J. II. KELLEY. LOST. On the evening of June 19th, off Scarborough hill, about 50 fathoms new net, 40 meshes deep, corks branded F P Co ; also, on the evening of June 20th about 210 fathoms net, no fathoms old, 40 meshes deep and 100 fathoms new, 4G meshes deep, brand ed on corks F P Co and on buoy. The pieces of net picked up by thp owners had the ap pearance of being cut. Any information loading to the recovery of said nets will be suitably rewarded bv the F1SUEKMENS TACKING CO. 443-tf Otto Peterson. Astoria, Itnappton. Grays River and Ieep River. Regular Mail and rjissenger Steamer ROSETTA, ssl e Gko. F. COUSEXS Master ee-VHl leave Knappton for Astoria and return, daily. Will leae Astoria for Grays Itiver on Mondays of each week, returning on Tuesday via "Knappton and Deep River botli ways. CARRYING THE U. S. MAIL. 233" For frefcrht or passages1 living rales apply on board, or at I. W. Cage's store. LETTEPw HEAD PAPER, "P HINTED OR PLAIN, Otf THE BEST JL quality, at Tu Astobiax office. NEW ADYERTISEItfENTS. FOURTH OF JULY AT GATHLAMET. The Anniversary of our Independence will be celebrated at the above named place. First Class Music Furnished. An Oration "Delivered. During' tlie Day All Kinds of Refreshments to be had on the Grounds. DAXCrXG TimOUGH THE DAY A Grand BaH at Night. Every arrangement made for the enter tainment and comfort of the public All are cordially invited to attend. H. IIALLETT, Proprietor. SPECIAL NOTICE. Owing to a reduction on KeHned Sugar in San Francisco, I take pleasure to state that I will give Half Pound More Sugar FOB OZSE DOLLAR, Than heretofore, to strictly cash customers. Other Goods at Bed Hock Prices. X&rjje Invoices Just Opened. A2D Fresh Fruits a Specialty. E. S. LAltSEX. Mrs. H. A. Derby. Has just returned from San Francisco with the finest selected stock of MILLINERY GOODS, Ever offered In Astoria. Embracing every novelty in the line. Or, Warner's Health COKSET Crtii only be purchased in Astoria at Mrs. Derby's, Main street, between Squemoqhe and Jefferson. Astoria, Ore gon. Desire! Homestead Property On Accouirr of removal from Jhedty, weare jnstructedtosell Fire Acre Block IVo. 22, ALSO: Fire Acre Sllocli. 2fo. 255 On the south side of Astoria Peninsular, fronting on Youngs bay. These lots will be sold cheap for cash. Title is perfect. -For particulars inquire at this office for thirty days. D. C. IRELAND. Wilson & Fisher DEAX.EHS IX tt a laiD'VJTA.aaiE. LUBRICATING OILS, COAL OIL, PAINTS AND OILS. Sheet, Round, and Square Prepared Rubber Packing. PROVISIONS, MILL PEED, GARDEN SEED, GRASS SEED. Which will be exchanged for country pro duce or sold at lowest prices. Corner Chenamus and Hamilton Streets ASTORIA, OREGON. Arndt & Ferchen. T HE BEST T 0?g BLACKSMITH A'D Mar.hinp. Rhno &t. In the city. ? All kinds of Engine, Cannery and Steninbeut Work promptly attended to. I. "W. CASE, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RE TAIL DEALER IN GENERAL MtCHAlISE, Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA - OREGON. Kid Gloves of Every Kind. BUTTN KIDS. JOUVINS, PEERLESS, mm) tmm M -J z--- "KaCc5 2 And other best grades. "SyWould invite special attention to this stock. 4 WE STILL TAKE THE LEAD !! SPHIB76 DRY CrGOBS. Be&t Simk mti Lowest Prims I To which -we call particular attention. OUR FANCY GOODS ARE COMPLETE. In Hosiery, Lace, White Goods and Embroidery, WE ARE TIIE BOSS. OUR CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS Are all of the Latest Styles and Designs. We offer extra Iiulucenieiits this season to purchasers, and although we arc not selling AJCObr, we defy any house in this eity to compete with our prices. e mean it I Come, gi e us a call and see for yourself what we can do for you. 33. BCa.DM::OTJDE2LC3--H3t- MAIN STREET. - - ASTORIA. ORISON. NEW BPBINQ m .A. YAN DTJSEN & CO. Have just received a full line of Spring and Summer goods of tlie very finest quality, whirl were bought during the lecent tumble in stocks, hen cash commands a pieniiuui, and. are therefore prepared to sell the same at less rates than the same quality goods can be purchased elsewhere. These goods consist in part of CJotliing, Gent's Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps, I.ulics Dress Goods, Muslins, Print -. Hosiery, Boots and Shoes. Rubber Doots, Oil Clolliing. In addition to the above have laid in a full stock of BUILDERS IUULTF.KI.iXS, JXA1TJ8, PAINTS, QI1S. ETC. The quality of our CROCKERY AUfD GLASSWARE, 3LA:UFS, ETC., Cannot be excelled and our prices defy competition. Family Groceries and Provision a Specialty. Oregon City Im perial Extra Flour at $5 50 per Barrel. WARDS CLATSOP BUTTER ALWAYS IN STORE. 5S"Agency for Singer and White Sewing Machines. "STalls, Fargo & Cos Express oftiee. corner of Cass and Jefferson st reet. LOOK The OKE PRICE CASH HOUSE OP ASTORIA, IS THE PLACE TO PURCHASE TOTJR DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, ETC., ETC., - AT UPPRAORDINABY Our stock cannot be surpassed in Price, Variety, or Quality by any store in the city, and we can, and WILL undersell all competition. "We are now receiving NEW GOODS per every steamer, and have just laid in an extensive line of LADIES LINEN SUITS, Which will be closed out cheap. Remember these are no mere assertions, and ask you to call and satify yourself. We. Ulcan Business. COHEN & COOPER. I X L STOliE. a :kt I 3VE 3MC US 3ST -OF C Xm V H I If & or TE .LATEST STYLES ZKT. XaODESZO'S, Main Street. Astoria. Jae 6rdJtts BtmwbBrtis mi Brem I have always on hand all kinds of Fresh and Pure j. aj FRENCH AND AMERICAN CANDIES. & S MOLASSES TAFFEE, CHOCOLATE CARAMELS, H AND ALL KINDS OF QQ jF1 H- 3E3 SB JEL CABLES- q-q r AI.no. Freslt Fruits. Sueli as ? W' rxf .umrnniP n, rpnnirp ,,-.-,. HDAllf-CO olnAWdLnniLOj i-ntnmcD, rcHunco, unniiuco, p LEMONS 23 Made to order, ind all kinds S. SGHRSEER'S OPPOSITE THE COIjUMBIA JOHN HAHN, ASTORIA, Manufacturer oi and Dealer in Lager and Bottled Beer, tThe Columbia Brewery has every facility, and using none but the best materials and employing experienced brewers, will warrant satisfaction in filling j all orders. Orders from abroad promptly attended to. SUMMER STOCK HERE! i E - LOW HQURi SB DEI & T O C 33L AND LIMES. of Wedding Cake Ornaments at J CONFECTIONERY, BELL TOWEE. I03.:E2-7Sr:E2:R." ', PRCFR8ETOR, OH.EGr02ST